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From: ostroff@Oswego.EDU (Boyd Ostroff)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: AUX 2.0.1 cost
Message-ID: <1991Feb15.192848.16062@oswego.Oswego.EDU>
Date: 15 Feb 91 19:28:48 GMT
References: <98@s5000.RSVL.UNISYS.COM>
Reply-To: ostroff@oswego.Oswego.EDU (Boyd Ostroff)
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In article <98@s5000.RSVL.UNISYS.COM> piper@s5000.RSVL.UNISYS.COM (Piper Keairnes) writes:
>What would be the best price an educational purchaser could find for
>AUX 2.0.1 software only? Hard disk is not needed. Perhaps a breakdown
>of different distribution media costs and what manuals would cost.

Well I was interested too and checked it out about a week ago.  Boy was
I shocked.  The HEPP pricing, plus a 10% markup at our college store was
$730 for A/UX with the "Accessory Kit" (what's that?) and $587 for the
manuals.  It is somewhat cheaper to buy it on a CD-ROM.

Yeah, I know that UNIX has gotten expensive, but $1300 sounds outrageous to
me - I sure can't spend that much as an individual.  Right now I own an
AT&T 3B1 (2MB RAM/67 MB disk) which runs UNIX System V and had been thinking 
about selling it and buying A/UX for my Mac IIcx. I only paid $2300 new for
the 3B1 a few years ago including Unix, and doubt that I could even get the
$1300  to buy A/UX if I sold it today.  

One possibility did catch my eye, though.  You can get a "right to copy"
licence for about $100 to install A/UX on additional workstations.  Perhaps
several people could get together and do a group buy to take advantage of
this pricing.... 


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